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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375), First Official Language Spoken (4A), Age Groups (8B) and Sex (3) for the population excluding institutional residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2011 Census

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This table details selected demographic and language characteristics , first official language spoken , age groups and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Thunder Bay
Selected Demographic and Language Characteristics (375) First official language spoken (4A)
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 1 English French English and French
Age groups - Total population excluding institutional residents 144,290 138,660 4,915 160
0 to 4 years 6,975 6,830 105 15
5 to 9 years 7,160 7,000 145 10
10 to 14 years 7,975 7,810 145 15
15 to 19 years 9,485 9,285 170 20
20 to 24 years 9,375 9,190 170 5
25 to 29 years 8,310 8,100 205 5
30 to 34 years 7,825 7,570 250 5
35 to 39 years 8,435 8,140 270 10
40 to 44 years 9,520 9,145 360 10
45 to 49 years 11,490 10,990 480 10
50 to 54 years 12,805 12,200 570 5
55 to 59 years 11,600 11,040 530 10
60 to 64 years 10,175 9,665 465 5
65 to 69 years 7,025 6,640 345 5
70 to 74 years 5,570 5,220 270 5
75 to 79 years 4,415 4,110 205 5
80 to 84 years 3,350 3,100 150 5
85 years and over 2,815 2,620 85 5
Median ageFootnote 2 43.5 42.9 51.5 29.5
Total population 15 years and over by marital statusFootnote 3 122,185 117,015 4,525 110
Married or living with a common-law partner 69,510 66,195 2,980 50
Married (and not separated) 57,260 54,580 2,360 45
Living common law 12,250 11,615 620 10
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 52,670 50,820 1,550 55
Single (never legally married) 33,345 32,520 745 40
Separated 4,235 4,040 180 5
Divorced 7,000 6,705 280 0
Widowed 8,090 7,555 340 5
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 4 144,290 138,660 4,920 160
English only 131,270 131,270 0 0
French only 310 0 310 0
English and French 12,115 7,355 4,605 160
Neither English nor French 590 30 0 0
Mother Tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents 144,290 138,660 4,915 155
Single responses 142,620 137,110 4,865 85
English 121,840 121,835 5 0
French 5,270 430 4,840 0
Non-official languages 15,510 14,840 20 85
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 5 1,800 1,760 0 5
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 105 100 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 5 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 5 0 0
Ojibway 1,315 1,290 0 5
Oji-Cree 365 360 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 6 13,565 12,960 20 80
African languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Afrikaans 5 10 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 10 10 0 0
Amharic 15 15 0 0
Arabic 130 130 0 0
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Bengali 35 35 0 5
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 5 0 0
Bisayan languages 25 30 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 10 10 0 5
Burmese 30 30 0 0
Cantonese 90 70 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 280 240 0 5
Creoles 25 25 0 0
Croatian 325 315 0 0
Czech 60 55 0 0
Danish 85 85 0 0
Dutch 445 440 0 5
Estonian 65 65 0 0
Finnish 2,720 2,630 0 5
Flemish 5 10 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 995 985 0 5
Greek 160 155 0 0
Gujarati 25 30 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 0 0 0 0
Hindi 50 50 0 0
Hungarian 165 160 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 3,305 3,110 0 10
Japanese 45 45 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 25 30 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 25 25 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 20 15 0 0
Macedonian 5 0 0 0
Malay 5 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 5 0 0 0
Mandarin 80 70 5 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 30 30 0 5
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 5 0
Norwegian 30 25 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 45 35 0 0
Pashto 10 5 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 95 90 0 0
Polish 1,070 1,035 5 0
Portuguese 445 405 5 0
Romanian 70 55 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 115 110 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 5 0 0
Serbian 45 50 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 5 5 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 5 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 5 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 125 105 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 30 30 0 0
Slovak 210 205 0 5
Slovenian 105 105 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 330 300 5 10
Swahili 5 5 0 0
Swedish 50 50 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino,Filipino) 185 185 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 15 10 0 0
Telugu 5 5 0 0
Thai 20 15 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 15 15 0 0
Ukrainian 950 935 0 0
Urdu 70 70 0 0
Vietnamese 130 125 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 7 140 125 0 5
Multiple responses 1,670 1,545 50 70
English and French 435 345 20 70
English and non-official language 1,130 1,130 5 0
French and non-official language 90 60 30 0
English, French and non-official language 20 20 0 5
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 8 144,290 138,655 4,915 155
Single responses 142,270 136,915 4,730 70
English 136,005 133,210 2,800 0
French 2,040 110 1,930 0
Non-official languages 4,230 3,600 10 65
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 9 525 485 0 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 15 10 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 5 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 5 0 0 0
Ojibway 375 355 0 5
Oji-Cree 125 115 0 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 10 3,635 3,060 10 60
African languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Afrikaans 5 5 0 0
Akan (Twi) 5 5 0 0
Albanian 0 0 0 0
Amharic 10 10 0 0
Arabic 45 40 0 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 20 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 5 5 0 0
Burmese 30 30 0 0
Cantonese 35 20 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 150 120 0 5
Creoles 5 5 0 5
Croatian 95 90 0 0
Czech 15 10 0 0
Danish 5 10 0 0
Dutch 20 15 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 635 545 0 5
Flemish 0 0 0 0
Fukien 5 0 0 0
German 80 70 0 5
Greek 50 45 0 0
Gujarati 20 20 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 0 0 0
Hindi 20 20 0 0
Hungarian 25 25 0 0
Ilocano 5 5 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Italian 1,010 820 0 10
Japanese 5 5 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 15 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 0 0 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 0 0 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 0 0 0
Malayalam 0 0 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 45 30 0 5
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 20 20 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Norwegian 5 5 0 0
Oromo 0 5 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 30 25 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 55 50 0 0
Polish 295 260 5 5
Portuguese 135 100 0 0
Romanian 35 25 0 5
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 0 0 0
Russian 45 40 0 5
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Serbian 10 10 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 35 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 5 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 120 95 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Slovak 15 10 0 0
Slovenian 35 30 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 100 80 0 5
Swahili 0 0 0 0
Swedish 0 5 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 65 60 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 5 5 0 0
Telugu 5 0 0 0
Thai 5 0 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 10 10 0 0
Ukrainian 105 95 0 0
Urdu 40 35 0 0
Vietnamese 65 60 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 11 75 45 0 0
Multiple responses 2,015 1,745 185 85
English and French 310 65 170 75
English and non-official language 1,670 1,660 10 0
French and non-official language 15 15 5 0
English, French and non-official language 30 10 5 15
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 12 144,290 138,655 4,915 155
None 132,965 129,610 2,740 100
Single responses 11,150 8,885 2,165 50
English 2,765 1,760 935 35
French 2,530 1,335 1,195 0
Non-official languages 5,845 5,795 35 10
Selected Aboriginal languagesFootnote 13 1,315 1,310 5 0
Atikamekw 0 0 0 0
Cree, n.o.s. 75 75 0 0
Dene 0 0 0 0
Innu/Montagnais 0 0 0 0
Inuktitut 0 0 0 0
Mi'kmaq 0 0 0 0
Ojibway 980 975 0 0
Oji-Cree 260 255 5 0
Stoney 0 0 0 0
Selected non-Aboriginal languagesFootnote 14 4,470 4,420 35 10
African languages, n.i.e. 5 0 0 0
Afrikaans 0 0 0 0
Akan (Twi) 0 5 0 0
Albanian 5 5 0 0
Amharic 0 5 0 0
Arabic 80 70 10 5
Armenian 0 0 0 0
Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Bengali 15 15 0 0
Berber languages (Kabyle) 0 0 0 0
Bisayan languages 10 10 0 0
Bosnian 0 0 0 0
Bulgarian 0 0 0 0
Burmese 10 10 0 0
Cantonese 30 30 0 0
Chinese, n.o.s. 60 60 0 0
Creoles 20 20 0 0
Croatian 90 90 5 0
Czech 15 20 0 0
Danish 25 25 0 0
Dutch 115 115 0 0
Estonian 15 15 0 0
Finnish 815 815 0 0
Flemish 5 0 0 0
Fukien 0 0 0 0
German 350 345 5 0
Greek 80 80 0 0
Gujarati 0 5 0 0
Hakka 0 0 0 0
Hebrew 5 5 0 0
Hindi 10 10 0 0
Hungarian 50 50 0 0
Ilocano 0 0 0 0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Italian 1,240 1,225 10 0
Japanese 20 20 0 0
Khmer (Cambodian) 0 0 0 0
Korean 10 10 0 0
Kurdish 0 0 0 0
Lao 5 5 0 0
Latvian 5 5 0 0
Lingala 0 0 0 0
Lithuanian 5 5 0 0
Macedonian 0 0 0 0
Malay 0 5 0 0
Malayalam 5 5 0 0
Maltese 0 0 0 0
Mandarin 20 20 0 0
Marathi 5 5 0 0
Nepali 0 0 0 0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 5 5 0 0
Norwegian 10 5 0 0
Oromo 0 0 0 0
Panjabi (Punjabi) 20 20 0 0
Pashto 0 0 0 0
Persian (Farsi) 30 25 0 0
Polish 340 335 5 0
Portuguese 155 150 0 0
Romanian 15 15 0 0
Rundi (Kirundi) 0 5 0 0
Russian 30 30 0 0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0 0 0 0
Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0 0 0 0
Serbian 15 15 0 0
Serbo-Croatian 0 0 0 0
Shanghainese 0 0 0 0
Sign languages, n.i.e. 20 20 0 0
Sindhi 0 0 0 0
Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0 0 0 0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 10 10 0 0
Slavic languages, n.i.e. 15 15 0 0
Slovak 45 40 0 0
Slovenian 35 35 0 0
Somali 0 0 0 0
Spanish 205 200 0 0
Swahili 5 0 0 0
Swedish 10 10 0 0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 75 75 0 0
Taiwanese 0 0 0 0
Tamil 0 5 0 0
Telugu 0 5 0 0
Thai 5 10 0 0
Tibetan languages 0 0 0 0
Tigrigna 0 0 0 0
Turkish 5 5 0 0
Ukrainian 215 210 0 0
Urdu 20 15 0 0
Vietnamese 55 50 0 0
Yiddish 0 0 0 0
Other languagesFootnote 15 60 60 0 0
Multiple responses 180 165 10 10
English and French 10 5 0 10
English and non-official language 30 25 5 0
French and non-official language 135 135 5 0
English, French and non-official language 0 0 0 5
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residentsFootnote 16 144,290 138,655 4,915 155
English 138,660 138,655 0 0
French 4,920 0 4,915 0
English and French 160 0 0 160
Neither English nor French 560 0 0 0
Official language minority (number)Footnote 17 4,995 0 4,915 80
Official language minority (percentage)Footnote 18 3.5 0.0 100.0 51.6

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Those classified in the category 'Neither English nor French' appear only in the 'Total' category in this table.

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Footnote 2

The median age is an age 'x', such that exactly one half of the population is older than 'x' and the other half is younger than 'x'.

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Footnote 3

Marital status
Part A - Short definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status.
Part B - Detailed definition
Refers to the marital status of the person, taking into account his/her common-law status. Persons who are married or living common law may be of opposite sex or of the same sex. The classification is as follows:
Married (and not separated): A person who is married and has not separated or obtained a divorce, and whose spouse is living.
Common-law: A person who is living with another person as a couple but who is not legally married to that person.
Separated: A person who is married but who no longer lives with his/her spouse (for any reason other than illness, work or school) and who has not obtained a divorce. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Divorced: A person who has obtained a legal divorce and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Widowed: A person who has lost his/her spouse through death and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.
Single (never legally married): A person who has never married or a person whose marriage has been annulled and who has not remarried. Persons living common law are not included in this category.

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Footnote 4

Total population excluding institutional residents. The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 5

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Footnote 7

Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 8

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 9

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Footnote 12

Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 13

Selected Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the Aboriginal mother tongues most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Selected non-Aboriginal languages
The languages shown were selected based on the non-Aboriginal mother tongues (other than English or French) most often reported as single responses in Canada in the 2011 Census of Population.

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Other languages
This is a subtotal of all languages collected by the census that are not displayed separately here. For a full list of languages collected in the census, please refer to Appendix D in the 2011 Census Dictionary.

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Total population excluding institutional residents
The population excluding institutional residents includes Canadian citizens (by birth or by naturalization) and landed immigrants (permanent residents) excluding those who live in institutions (institutional collective dwellings). Canadian citizens and landed immigrants either: (1) have a usual place of residence in Canada; (2) are abroad either on a military base or attached to a diplomatic mission; or (3) are at sea or in port aboard merchant vessels under Canadian registry or Canadian government vessels. Since 1991, the target population also includes persons with a usual place of residence in Canada who are claiming refugee status, who hold study permits, or who hold work permits, as well as family members living with them; for census purposes, this group is referred to as non-permanent residents. The population universe does not include foreign residents.

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Footnote 17

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Footnote 18

English is the first official language spoken by Quebec's official language minority, which consists of all individuals with English as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French. French is the first official language spoken by the official language minority in the country overall and in every province and territory outside Quebec, which consists of all individuals with French as a first official language spoken and half of those with both English and French.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011053.

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